160 ANIMALS KILLED TV, 
ferver, from the rare and fingular beings they 
contain. To the mud of ditches and marfhes we 
owe the clufter, armed, bulb, funnel, and knot- 
ted polypus. It is there we find the frefh water 
worm, the boat worm, and the dart millepede; 
animals that have confounded the human mind, 
and created a new philofophy. When the fand of 
tiles is not the abode of wheel animals, -it is not 
then the lefs famous or remarkable. An animal 
which revives after death, and which, within cer- 
tain limits, revives as often as we pleafe, isa 
phenomenon as incredible as it feems improbable 
and paradoxical. It confounds the moft receiv- 
ed ideas.of animality ; it creates new ideas, and 
becomes an object no lefs interefting to the re- 
fearches of the naturalift than the fpeculation of 
the profound metaphyfician. But the celebrity 
of this fand will increafe, by learning that it con- 
tains other animals, which, like the wheeler, pof- 
fefs the property of réfurreCtion: fo that we may 
almoft fay, all the animals living in fand are im- 
mortal. There I have difcovered two new fpe- 
cles of. animals, which I proceed to defcribe. I 
lament that their rarenefs has prevented me from 
extending my obfervations as far as 1 could have 
wifhed, or rather as far as the importance of the 
fubject would have required. 
On wetting wheel animals’ fand, | fever ti times 
obferved a yellowifh animal three or four times 
larger 
